RAWALPINDI – A teenage boy was martyred while his younger sibling was leftcritically injured in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Thursday after Indiantroops resorted to unprovoked firing from across the Line of Control (LoC).

A police official in Forward Kahuta, Zubair Gillani said the incident tookplace in Akhori village situated in closest proximity to the LoC in Nezapirsector of Haveli district.

The deceased was identified as 15-years-old Tahir while the injured is12-year-old.

According to Muhammad Zaheer, district disaster management officer inHaveli, Indian troops violated ceasefire at about 7am till 10:30 am usingsmall arms and mortar shells.

The boy was hit by shrapnel on his chest and died on the spot, while thegirl was critically injured after a splinter passed through her headcausing her a brain injury, he added.

The officer said the injured girl was initially brought to a military-runhealth facility in district headquarters Forward Kahuta, from where she wasreferred to Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahayan Hospital Rawalakot in theneighbouring Poonch district.

Following the incident, AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider, grieved theloss of Kashmiri lives at the hands of “Indian troops on both sides” of thedivide.